Powell says Bush was 'informed' of Red Cross concerns

As written before, the main question is 'What did rummy know and when did he know it?' second is 'when did you tell the president?'

As you may recall, the International Red Cross made warnings about these crimes going on all through the fall of last year. As a general rule, most countries will let the Int'l Red Cross in because they do well respected reports and keep them private so the country can deal with the problems w/o the PR battles on top of it. they usually only go public with abuses when it seems the offending government is refusing to do anything about the situation.

As you may know, the abuses were first brought to light by the International Red Cross because of our in-action.

It's been made to look as if the President was just coming to know about these abuses...but not so fast!

Seems Colin Powell spills the beans:

"we kept the president informed of the concerns that were raised by the ICRC and other international organizations as part of my regular briefings of the president, and advised him that we had to follow these issues, and when we got notes sent to us or reports sent to us ... we had to respond to them, and the president certainly made it clear that that’s what he expected us to do."

If that's so, why do we deal with it NOW after it hits the press?